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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempo of Dixie. Expert musicians pronounced Stanwurt's embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that his son also plays the trumpet and trombone, proudly declared: "Stanwurt just loves to smear those runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby Beeper | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Dark-maned, trumpet-voiced Stephen Samuel Wise was not in Providence's Biltmore Hotel last week to hear himself elevated to the Zionist presidency. Zionist Wise was in London, conferring with famed Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann and members of the British Government on current Arab-Jewish strife in Palestine (TIME, July 6 et ante). From London Dr. Wise sent word of his gratification, added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Up Wise | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dixieland | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Concert Intime" in Washington, D. C. last week the solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trumpeter | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trumpeter | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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